Spring

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-026465",
  "term": "Spring",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Ground water seeping out of the earth where the water table intersects the ground surface.\n\n2. A water body formed when the side of a hill, a valley bottom or other excavation intersects a flowing body of groundwater at or below the local water table, below which the subsurface material is saturated with water.\n\n3. Place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth.\n\n4. Site at which ground water flows through a natural opening in the ground onto the land surface or into a body of surface water.",
  "subject": "General environmental",
  "references": [
    "Drinking Water Technical & Legal Terms; Terms of Environment",
    "USGS Water Science Glossary of Terms",
    "USGS Geographic Names Information System at http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic",
    "40 CFR 131.43 (CFR 2013)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/spring/"
}